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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen

We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

Lauren Oliver
Choices, Steps, Requiem

Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed to be limited. That's life" I snapped

Lauren Oliver
Choices, Lists, Yeah

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Lauren Oliver
Fall, Choices, Easy
Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.84, Hachette UK

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Lauren Oliver
Choices, Done, Firsts

They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Lauren Oliver
Lying, Choices, Fiction

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.

Lauren Oliver
People, Choices, Pieces

Every choice is limited. That's life.

Lauren Oliver
Choices

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